Carter Family Page

A fairly complete collection of their songs with lyrics and chords.

The Carter Family have been hugely influential in shaping country music. Although many of their songs have earlier origins in folk music, they were the first to bring this type of music to public attention in any major way. Since their first recordings more than 70 years ago, several generations of musicians, particularly those in the bluegrass and oldtimey fields have been fondly performed their songs.
Today, to some, the lyrics may seem quaint and over sentimental, harking back, as they do, to what many argue, was an idealized time when life was simpler and better. Some may question the validity of such music today, but to me, and I'm sure many others, the world would be a better place if much of what passes for current popular music were replaced by material from our musical traditions.

See here for a biography of the Carter Family

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The following list is, as far as I know, a pretty much complete list of the Carter family song repertoire. The song titles marked with an asterisk are available as lyrics with chords, those unmarked have just the lyrics. I hope eventually to provide chords for all these songs as transcriptions become available and I would like to thank all those who have helped so far with this page by providing many of the chord transcriptions here. Also copies of original out out copyright 78's (not later re-recordings) could also help to complete this page. Please note that the chords provided may not be the same as those used by the Carter Family, but ones chosen by the transcriber.

If anyone has chords for any songs that I don't already have or you have corrections for what is here it would be greatly appreciated, please get in touch.

In case the chords provided are not in your preferred key, I have provided a conversion chart HERE which will allow you to transpose to any required key. For chord fingering patterns for various instruments check the Chords Page.

For Carter Family books and sheet music to buy check the Carter Family Collection at Sheet Music Plus.

These lyrics & chords, these are provided for personal, educational and study purposes only, and are the authors interpretation of the work and are not intended to represent any particular version or performance.

Carter Family Song Repertoire, CRD = with chords

A Distant Land To Roam CRD Amber Tresses CRD Anchored In Love CRD Answer To Weeping Willow CRD Are You Lonesome Tonight CRD Are You Tired Of Me, My Darling CRD Away Out on the Saint Sabbath CRD Bear Creek Blues CRD Beautiful Brown Eyes CRD Beautiful Home CRD Beautiful Isle O'er The Sea CRD Behind Those Stone Walls CRD Birds Were Singing Of You CRD Black Jack David CRD Blackie's Gunman CRD Bonnie Blue Eyes Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy CRD Bring Back My Wandering Boy CRD Buddies In The Saddle CRD Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow CRD By The Touch Of Her Hand CRD Can The Circle Be Unbroken CRD Cannon Ball Blues CRD Carter's Blues CRD Charlie & Nellie CRD Chewing Gum CRD Charming Beauty Bright Church In The Wildwood CRD Coal Miner's Blues CRD Columbus Stokade Blues CRD Cowboy Jack CRD Cowboy's Wild Song To His Herd CRD Crying holy unto the Lord CRD Cuban Soldier Cyclone of Rye Cove CRD Dark And Stormy Weather CRD Dark Haired True Lover CRD Darling Daisies CRD Darling Little Joe CRD Darling Nellie Across The Sea CRD Dear Companion Diamonds in the Rough CRD Don't Forget Me Little Darling CRD Don't Forget This Song CRD East Virginia Blues CRD East Virginia Blues #2 Engine 143 CRD Evening Bells Are Ringing CRD Far Side Banks Of Jordan CRD Faded Coat Of Blue CRD Faded Flowers CRD Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room CRD Foggy Mountain Top CRD Fond Affection CRD Forsaken Love CRD Funny When You Feel That Way CRD Gathering flowers from the hillside CRD Girl On The Greenbriar Shore CRD Give Him One More As He Goes Give Me Roses While I Live CRD Give Me Your Love And I'll Give You Mine CRD Glory To The Lamb CRD God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign CRD Gold Watch and Chain CRD Goodbye to the plains CRD Grave on the Green Hillside CRD Happy in prison CRD Happy Or Lonesome CRD He Took White Roses From Her Hair CRD He never came back CRD Heaven's Radio CRD Hello Central, Give Me Heaven CRD Hello Stranger CRD Hold Fast To The Right CRD Home By The Sea CRD Home In Tennessee CRD Homestead on the Farm CRD Honey in the rock CRD I Ain't Going To Work Tomorrow CRD I Cannot Be Your Sweetheart CRD I Can't Feel At Home In This World Anymore CRD I Found You Among The Roses I Have An Aged Mother I Have No One to Love Me CRD I Loved This Better Than You Knew I Never Loved But One I Never Will Marry CRD I Wouldn't Mind Dying If One Won't Another Will I'll Be All Smiles Tonight CRD I'll Be Home Someday CRD I'll Never Forsake You I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes CRD I'm Working On A Building In The Highways CRD In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain CRD In The Valley Of The Shenandoah CRD It'll Aggravate Your Soul It's A Long, Long Road To Travel Alone Jealous Hearted Me Jim Blake's Message Jimmy Brown The Newsboy CRD John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man CRD Just A Few More Days Just Another Broken Heart CRD Keep On The Firing Line CRD Keep On The Sunny Side CRD Kissing Is Crime CRD Kitty Waltz CRD Leaning on the Everlasting Arms CRD Let The Church Roll On CRD Little Darling Pal Of Mine Little girl that played upon my knee CRD Little Joe Little Log Cabin By The Sea CRD Little Log Hut In The Lane CRD Little Moses CRD Little Poplar Log House On The Hill Lonesome For You Lonesome For You Darling Lonesome Homesick Blues Lonesome Pine Special CRD Lonesome Valley CRD Longing For Old Virginia CRD Look Away From The Cross Lover's Farewell CRD Lover's Lane Lover's Return CRD Lulu Walls CRD Maple on the hill CRD March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Away CRD Meet Me By The Moonlight Alone Meeting In The Air CRD Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia Motherless Children CRD Mountains of Tennessee CRD My Clinch Mountain Home CRD My Dixie Darling CRD My Heart's Tonight In Texas CRD My Home Among The Hills My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountain CRD My Little Home In Tennessee My Native Home My Old Cottage Home CRD My Old Virginia Home My Texas Girl Never Let the Devil Get The Upper Hand Of You CRD No Depression CRD No More The Moon Shines On Lorena CRD No Other's Bride I'll Be CRD No Telephone In Heaven CRD Oh Take Me Back Old gospel ship CRD On A Hill Lone And Gray On My Way To Canaan's Land CRD On The Rock Where Moses Stood CRD On The Sea Of Galilee CRD One Little Word CRD Over the Garden Wall CRD Picture On The Wall Poor Little Orphaned Boy CRD Prisoner’s Song CRD Railroading on the Great Divide Rambling Boy CRD Reckless Motorman CRD River Of Jordan CRD Room In Heaven For Me CRD Sad And Lonesome Day CRD Sailor Boy Sailor On The Deep Blue Sea CRD School House on the Hill See That My Grave is Kept Green Single Girl, Married Girl CRD Sinking In The Lonesome Sea CRD Something Got A Hold Of Me Sow 'Em On The Mountain CRD St. Regis Girl CRD Stern Old Bachelor Sunshine In The Shadows Sweet As The Flowers In Maytime Sweet Fern CRD Sweet Heaven In My View Tell Me That You Love Me The Birds Were Singing CRD The Broken Hearted Lover CRD The Cannonball - see Cannonball Blues
The Church In The Wildwood CRD The Church In The Wildwood2 CRD The Dying Mother The Dying Soldier CRD The Happiest Days Of Them All The Last Letter The Little Black Train The Little Gypsy Girl CRD The Mountains Of Tennessee CRD The Poor Orphan Child The Spirit Of Love Watches Over Me CRD The Storms Are On The Ocean CRD The Sun Of The Soul The Wandering Boy CRD The Wayworn Traveler CRD The Western Hobo CRD The Winding Stream CRD The Wonderful City There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy CRD There'll Be No Distinction There's No Hiding Place Down There There's Someone Awaiting For Me This is Heaven to Me CRD Two Sweethearts CRD Wabash Cannonball CRD Walking the King's Highway CRD Waves On The Sea CRD We Shall Rise CRD We Will March Through The Streets Of The City CRD Weary Prodigal Son CRD When I'm Gone CRD When silver threads are gold again CRD When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland CRD When the Roses Come Again CRD When The Springtime Comes Again CRD When The World's On Fire CRD When This Evening Sun Goes Down CRD Where Shall I Be? CRD Where The Silvery Colorado Wends Its Way CRD Where We'll Never Grow Old CRD Who is that knocking at my window CRD Why Do You Cry Little Darling CRD Why There's A Tear In My Eye CRD Wildwood Flower CRD Will My Mother Know Me There CRD Will The Circle Be Unbroken CRD Will The Roses Bloom In Heaven CRD Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone CRD Worried Man Blues CRD Wreck On The C & O You Are My Flower CRD You Better Let That Liar Alone CRD You Denied Your Love CRD You Tied A Love Knot In My Heart CRD Your mother still prays for you, Jack CRD You've Been A Friend To Me CRD Young Freda Bolt CRD You're Gonna Be Sorry You Let Me Down CRD You're Nothing More To Me You've Been Fooling Me Baby CRD You've Got To Righten That Wrong CRD

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